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Hello, |
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On Sat, 08 Dec 2018, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>On 08/12/2018 07:33, David Haller wrote: |
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>> *Meh* |
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>> I miss my Matrox Mystique (first model w/170MHz RAMDAC!) with a |
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>> whopping 4 MB SGRAM, and not even a heatsink, just the plain naked |
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>> chip, much less a fan, and it ran in a PCI slot, at about ~4.5W (or |
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>> was it 5W?) theoretical max usage... |
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> |
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>As it happens, I had the exact same card! Well, almost. I had the 2MB |
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>version. There was a 2MB module that you could use to upgrade to a total of |
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>4MB, but I was never able to find it anywhere. And there was no "online |
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>shopping" back then. As result, I was only able to play Tomb Raider 1 at |
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>512x384 instead of 640x480 :-) |
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from a lilo.conf back when: |
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append="video=matrox:vesa:789 ..." |
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best 2D ever, eh? The con is noticeably much slower on nvidia than |
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with that matrox at any resolution (from "normal" to whatever)... Oh, |
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and I could play "Descent" just fine at 800x600 or so. Got sorta dizzy |
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the first hour or so, but once adjusted, wow, *that's* a 3D game! And |
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still is! :) I still like to play it (as d1x, patched for max |
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ammo[1]/energy/shield *hrhrhr* I play alone and for fun, not for |
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setting records ;) I also patch BfWesnoth in the same vein... *eg* |
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*ARGH* I should get meself a github account and polish and submit some |
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of my local patches / new ebuilds ... No, not those "cheating" patches :) |
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Just e.g. stuff that makes stuff optional for libreoffice... *gnarf* |
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-dnh |
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[1] for the gauss, signed short, IIRC. |
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/ "When it works, it is just biding its time waiting for \ |
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\ a more inconvenient time for it to fail." -- Joe Moore / |
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